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Counter-Strike is a modification (MOD) to the excellent game, Half-Life. It modifies the multiplayer aspects of Half-Life to bring to it a more team-oriented gameplay. Counter-Strike provides the player with an experience that a trained counter-terrorist unit or terrorist unit experiences.

The MOD is team-based featuring one team playing the role of the terrorist and the other team playing the role of the counter-terrorist. Each side has access to different guns and equipment, as well as different abilities. Maps have different goals such as: hostage rescue, assassination, bomb defusion, Terrorist escape, etc.

Weapons include the usual assortment of pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, grenades, demolition devices. Each side has access to a different subset of weapons so for example only the counter-terrorist can use the M4A1, and only the terrorists can use the AK-47.

Awards

Rookie Studio Award

Game Developers Choice Awards, GDC

Game Spotlight Award
Other nominees were: American McGee's Alice from Rogue/Electronic Arts; NFL2K1 from Visual Concepts; Sacrifice from Shiny Entertainment; Seaman from Vivarium; SSX from EA Canada; Virtua Tennis from Sega; Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask from Nintendo EAD; Samba de Amigo from Sonic Team; Shenmue from Sega AM2; and The Sims from Maxis.
-- Game Developers Choice Awards, GDC

Multiplayer Game of the Year
"Ultimately, Counter-Strike plays great ... Counter-Strike helps redefine the model for what online multiplayer games can be."
-- Gamespot

Game of the Year
"We've logged more hours of Counter-Strike than all of the other nominees combined. Bug us after work and you're bound to hear, "Rush the H!" or "We're getting flanked!" Hop onto our numerous servers and you'll see a few GX tags (Gamers.com employees) owning it up. Great games come and go, but we always find ourselves returning to Counter-Strike, our Game of the Year."
-- Gamers.com